>game has an abandoned castle / sewer / cave level
>bats are enemies
>they agressively fly towards the player and deal contact damage
What is up with this retarded notion against bats in games and why are people even scared of them? I can kinda understand in NES / SNES games where you had limited graphic options and such, but bats aren't even like spiders where people have arachnophobia.
Game has an abandoned castle / sewer / cave level
Xavier Gutierrez
Joshua Perez
are bats just flying dogs?
Hudson Sanders
It's cruise control for enemy design
>"We need flying enemy in this dungeon!"
>"What would be down here?"
>"I dunno, bats?"
Thomas Hill
Bats are flying rats, at least in terms of risk of communicable diseases, fleas and ticks, and so on.
They're thematically associated with vampires these days, sure, but they've always been shit tier animals
Nicholas Morris
I mean most games that have bats also deal with ghosts / demons, there's plenty of fictional shit to pull from.
And how often do they poop on you in video games instead of dealing contact damage?
Aaron Reed
CUTE
Camden Myers
I dunno, Aren't most Bats like Omnivores (Fruit and Insects) or Vegetarian while Dogs are Carnivores (unless they have a shitty vegetarian owner).
They cute, but like mentions, they can spread diseases and people likely notice correlation and worked it into superstition.
Jason Baker
there's the expression batshit insane
and bats do go batshit insane
they're erratic and they can bite and they will bite randomly if you're trying to catch them/get them out of your house
i had terrible experiences with bats. they're not really aggresive but you move 2 centimeters and they start flying like crazy fags. and since they're almost blind and they avoid bright light, they'll be very disoriented.
ive been bitten by one and i had to get a rabies shot. one day i woke up with 4 bats sleeping on my back. i was 10 years old. when i suddenly woke up, they were hanging from my clothes.
fuck bats. also the noise they do is annoying
Parker Watson
I've been killing and hating dogs for years in Souls games, who gives a shit. They're flying targets that are also somewhat fragile, good for low tier enemy variety.
Adrian Fisher
brushie brushie
Jayden Rodriguez
Rabies vector
>inb4 "noooo they eat heckin mosquitos tho"
Don't care, get white nose fungus. Maybe a more hygenic species will pick up their niche.
Robert Foster
Not every game with dungeons goes the supernatural route, or does so right out of the gate. And ghosts come with other implications. Like being intangible or need a special weapon to hit.
Nicholas Davis
He's not kissing him he's savoring his salty skin and wants to eat him
Mason Collins
Imagine if you had a bat pet, Goth bitches would literally throw at you
Too bad they're extinct , the goth bitches I mean, not the bats
Nathaniel Kelly
Bats are fucking based you nigger. They are highly intelligent animals that covergently evolved with parrots for long lifespans and dense brains. They are amazing beautiful creatures.
Grayson Rodriguez
God I wish that were me.
Kayden Roberts
shut the fuck up, bat
Adrian Miller
He looks like a fox now that my eyes have been opened, now I see why they call the gigant bats flying foxes
Austin Carter
>look edgy and cool
>nocturnal and live in scary places like caves and abandoned buildings
>commonly associated with vampires and gothic horror
is it really surprising they would become a staple video game enemy?
Hunter Phillips
Don't disgrace man's best friend like that. That thing you posted is a fucking rat. Note how it must be restrained to be simply fed. It will fly and go ape and probably give you a disease the minute it isn't gripped by the neck or put down like it should be.
Jackson Edwards
AHEM
pipis > fruit bat
Xavier Jenkins
Cool hair bro
Ethan Butler
Tell me about the pipistrelle. Why is it so round?
Robert Bell
fucking disgusting animals
kys
Caleb Ortiz
No one cared who he was until he became round.
Ethan Gray
hehe
he looks cutely retardded
Jordan Powell
>braps guano all over you and gives you turbo plague
nothin personelle user
Tyler Nelson
>Tfw you're a bat furry vtuber
Landon Peterson
prove it
Brayden Lopez
Took the holiday weekend off, gonna start again tomorrow.
James Morgan
they're still around, you're just too old now. Hang around a middle or a high school. Goth bitches grow up to be troons or hipsters here.
Cooper Parker
Why do they have 4 ears?
Luke Torres
christ look at those fucking teeth.
Jason Cox
they munch soft fruit, they probably couldn't penetrate your skin without breaking their jaws if they tried.
Matthew Powell
No, they're flying diseased rats that caused a fucking giant pandemic in the last 5 years
Benjamin Rivera
>guys "Bats" did Covid
that's a funny way of spelling "A Chinese Labratory"
Easton Bailey
>MUH HECKIN EVIL CONSPIRACY
Nah definitely diseased bats
Cameron Allen
I feel the same way about rats
Rats are cute and kind and cleanly animals when not overcrowded
Ryder Brown
That's a fruit bat though, those guys are gentle as fuck. Non fruit bats are the 1# carrier of rabies
>Bats were the most frequently reported rabid wildlife species (33% of all animal cases during 2018), followed by raccoons (30.3%), skunks (20.3%), and foxes (7.2%)
cdc.gov
Cooper Collins
So if you don't believe that it was made by humans then you believe that it happened because chinese people just ate them? And you blame the bats for it?
Ryder Thompson
Echolocation
Austin Gutierrez
Was getting in my car and a really big butterfly fluttered passed me very erratically and went for a snooze in the folds of the blockout curtains. Took me a moment to realize it wasn't a butterfly I didn't know bats got that small.
Jason Myers
>They are highly intelligent animals
I can tell from how they fucking dodge bullets in Terraria
Mason Mitchell
>filthy subhumans sell batflesh in open air markets alongside who knows what else
>cross contamination creates a new plague
>that plague miraculously spreads to every corner of the globe over the course of two months
>it's the bats faults
Yeah, those damn bats flying over the atlantic ocean to give us ChinAIDS that's whose to blame.
Nicholas Adams
Show me your fursona so i can kiss you
If you don't i will kiss you
Jaxson Green
Yeah fuck Bats. Carriers of highly infectious diseases are easily a problem. Not a human eating bat flesh to survive, as we a species have eaten a plethora of things to survive over the thousands of years.
Rats, Bats, Mosquitos are all fucked.
In terms of importance when it comes to eradicating from humanity though it'd be
Mosquitos > Rats > Bats, but still just cause something is a heckkin cute flyign doggerino to you doesn't make it not a pest.
Cameron Perez
unfortunately for your braindead cinocuck mentality the number one cause of disease spread amongst humans will always be other humans who don't observe hygiene or standard of public health. In other words: china.
I mean fuck, ever see the movie Pandemic? Everyone knew there was a plague in the pipes, and everyone knew it would come from dirt-ass backwater china. You want to use the word Pest? The real pestilence comes from the people who think ground up baboon testes will make you immortal and prescribe mercury to their kings.
Gabriel Gutierrez
No because dogs can't eat grapes.
Sebastian Allen
flying rat
Evan Morris
fucking kek, this faggot is really out here simping for disease carrying bat
go on, sit in a cave full of bats and see how quickly you come out with rabies
Liam Cooper
the only correct answer
/thread
Ethan Walker
>what is step 2 of food?
Ian Stewart
>dude I'm so hardcore I'm scared of bats
You're a pussy-ass bitch and we all know it.
Anthony Turner
>bats aren't even like spiders where people have arachnophobia
Plenty of people are equally if not more creeped out by bats
John Myers
>man covers himself in fish guts
>swims into the sea at night
>gets inevitably attacked by sharks
>”sharks are fucking horrible creatures, we need to eliminate all sharks”
user are you really blaming bats for being bats instead of the government that welds apartment buildings closed to stop the spread of diseases, forcing people to scavenge for things no human should ever eat for prolonged periods of time.
Jacob Walker
user. these two things aren't mutually exclusive. bats are shitty diseased animals that are flying rats. I can tell you've never interacted with bats tho but they're vile creatures.
Bats are flying Rats.
Henry Cooper
>people thinking all bats are the same
Megabats (fruit bats) and microbats (the ones that get into your attic) have barely anything in common besides being flying mammals. Fruit bats don't echolocate, their vision is perfectly fine, some aren't even nocturnal; also they aren't believed to spread coronaviruses, though they can carry other diseases.
Noah Flores
they are related to dogs whales and horses genetically speaking
the first bats were canid offshoots that dug holes and crawled around like freaky little gorillas
Caleb Green
>can tell you've never interacted with bats tho but they're vile creatures
I have, but I haven’t tried to run into where they are trying to sleep and attempt to eat them like a fried chicken sandwich. The rest of the world has no issue with these creatures, it’s those poor bastards in places like China who have to do everything to survive. You don’t disturb them, you’ll get no issues unless you live in a literal shithole where you’re forced to live in the same place they rest or feed.
Hudson Gonzalez
>muh bats did covid
Do you morons forget the Wuhan lab incident, the silenced scientist footage, and the genetic markers found in the virus?
Ayden Powell
Who gives a shit, bats in video games have been enemies before you were even born.
Joshua Wood
Jack Allen
>gives the world the 'rona